Judaeo-Papiamento

Judaeo-Papiamento
Native toCuraçao
Native speakers
"very few" (2021)
Portuguese-based creole languages
  • Afro-Portuguese
Latin (Papiamento orthography)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Judaeo-Papiamento, or Jewish Papiamentu, is an endangered Jewish language and an ethnolect of Papiamento spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean. It is likely the only living Jewish ethnolect based on a creole language and the only one based on a language native to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.